Combined lap-board and table



(No Model.)

M. H. MOCORKLE. COMBINED LAP BOARD AND TABLE.

No.-5 81,127. Patented Apr. 20. 1897.

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PATENT FFICE.

MOLLIE HENRIETTA MCOORKLE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

COMBINED LAP-BOARD AND TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 581,127, dated April20, 1897. Application filed June 18, 1896. Serial No. 596,090. (Nomodel.)

10 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MOLLIE HENRIETTA Mo- CORKLE, residing at Louisville,in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a newand Improved Combined Lap- Board and Table, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention seeks to provide a very simple and economical combinedlap-board and cutting-table which can be readily adjusted for use as anordinary lap-board or for use as a cutting or work table.

My invention also seeks to provide a table of this kind having partsthereof made detachable and the principal part thereof supported andvertically adjustable on a suitable standard, whereby the same is madeportable and whereby when used as a lap-board the weight of the board ortable will be on the said standard and not on the lap of the user, as isthe case in the use of the ordinary lapboard.

With other objects in view, which will hereinafter appear, the inventionconsists in the peculiar combination and novel arrangement of parts,such as will be first described in detail and then specifically pointedout in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, thesame being arranged as a cuttingtable. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe central or lap-board portion seen from below. Fig. 3 is a top planof the lap-board portion. Fig. 4 is a detail section taken on the line4. 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a view of the segmental ordetachable'lap-board member hereinafter referred to.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicatelike parts in all the figures, A indicates the base or standard, whichhas an internal threaded socket A to receive the threaded supporting legor shank B, the upper end of which is secured to the central orlap-board table-section O, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. By connecting themembers A and B in the manner described and shown the table 0 can bereadily raised and lowered, as conditions may require.

The table-section O is cut out at one edge, as indicated by C, so thatthe table portion can be moved close on the lap of the user, and

at each side of such cut-out portion C the said table has drawers 0 0*,as shown.

On the under side at the ends the table-section 0 has a series ofcastings D D, having loop portions cl d to receive the hook portions EE, secured on the under side of the table extensions F F, which arebraced and supported when attached to the section 0 by thebracket-plates G G, as most clearly shown in Fig. 4.

J indicates a detachable lap-board section which is adapted to fit thecut-out portion C of the board 0 and when in place to form such board ina solid table-section, as shown in Fig. 1.

The section J has hook-castingsj, which are adapted to engage theloop-castings 0 secured on the under side of board 0, which board isalso provided with swinging brackets 0 which are adapted to be swung outunder the section J to support the same.

K indicates a net-frame having hook portions is, adapted to engageloop-eye members L L, secured to one or both of the extensions F F, suchframe being provided to hold the material from which the pattern is tobe cut. I From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, it is thought the advantages of my invention willreadily appear. It will be observed that when the parts are assembled,as shown in Fig. 1, the same constitute a substantial cutting-table of alength sufficient when cutting a dress-skirt or long garment to hold thematerial and prevent it from dragging on the floor, the adjustability ofthe support admitting of the table being quickly raised or lowered to aproper height so the operator may stand and cut with comfort.Furthermore, when the leaves or extensions F F are removed and the table0 used as a lap-board the operator can have free use of the lap andlimbs without danger of disarranging the lapboard, it being alsomanifest that when not doing duty as a-lap-board by adding the section Jthe member C can be converted into a table for ordinary uses.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A combined lap-board and table comprising a central section provided atone side with a curved cut-out portion to form alap board, pable ofraising and lowering the same to the segmental section J detachahlysecured to adapt the device for use as a cutting-table or :o the centralsection at the cut-out portion and completing the central section, theend leaves detaehably secured to the central sect-ion and adapted to beremoved when the latter is used as a lap-b0ard, and a Vertically-adjustable support secured to the central section and caa laplioard,substantially as described.

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\Vitnesses:

W. S. ANDERSON, F. C. LORSEY.

